déclassé
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By elevating quotidian subject matter to a sublime frenzy of saturated hues, he established color photography as an art form during the 1960s and ’70s, when it had been dismissed as déclassé.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
She’s a remnant of a déclassé life that Simone wants to leave behind.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
Today, Americans intuitively associate computers and the internet with the technological frontier and associate manufacturing with déclassé smokestacks of yore.
From Slate ● May 28, 2024
This general variety of business has often been viewed as déclassé, the province of fast-talking hustlers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
There was a very hard-boiled egg, a box of sardines, a dish of terribly déclassé potatoes, and a cup of tea.
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
Magazines are piled in a corner, and a window offers a distinctly declasse view of the parking lot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dean's mother-in-law has Jeannie's old 1961 Continental, which became declasse in Hollywood when pressagents began driving them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Too long has that region's savory fare been dubbed declasse by snobbish restaurateurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
She has been declasse ever since her first divorce.
From His Own People by Booth Tarkington
